Control flipbooks and renders in MPlay

When you open a flipbook or render in MPlay, you can use controls in the MPlay to control the generation of the sequence to some extent.

To...	Do this
Cancel the flipbook/rendering	In MPlay, press `⎋ Esc` or click the stop rendering button in the menu bar.
Render the most important parts of the image first	Click in the image area to control which tile in the image will be rendered next.
Start a new sequence	By default, new frames rendered from Houdini are appended to the current sequence. Click the start new sequence button in the menu bar to begin a new sequence.

Reusing MPlay instances

MPlay can listen for renders and flipbook requests from Houdini.

To have MPlay listen for flipbooks, start it with mplay -K or mplay -flipbook. To have MPlay listen for renders, start it with mplay -k (lowercase k) or mplay -render.

A flipbook or render will automatically start an MPlay session if no MPlay session is listening for them.

Control flipbooks and renders in MPlay

Reusing MPlay instances

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